[Linux-HA] [Patch 0/3] Bug fixes and updates to 1.2.5 release

[Philip Pokorny]

Hello,

I'm new to the hearbeat mailing list, but I recently had to deploy the 
1.2.5 release of heartbeat for a customer.

In the process of building RPM's for Red Hat 4, I found a number of 
issues in the IPMI STONITH plugin and in heartbeat 1.2.5 itself.

When the STONITH plugin was updated for the new OpenIPMI API, the 
changes were not made correctly.  There are two confusing types of data 
structures which look similar but are very different:  ipmi_msg_t and 
ipmi_msgi_t.  The 'i' is very important.  The structure layouts are 
different and their use is different.  Also, the STONITH plugin turns 
the system off when asked to turn it on and on when asked to turn it 
off.  With these changes, the STONITH plugin now works.

There were some changes to the OpenIPMI API in version 2.x but the 1.4 
version of the API is compatible with the exception of the connection 
change handler.  In 1.4, there can be only one.  In 2.x there can be 
several.  That leads to different function names, but the calling method 
is identical and we don't use more than one, so we can make the code 
conditional on the version of OpenIPMI available and be able to work on 
1.4.4 (which is what ships with Red Hat 4)

Now that the code is capable of supporting OpenIPMI 1.4.4, we can change 
the tests in configure to allow OpenIPMI 1.4.4.

I'll attach the patches in following emails.

Thanks,
Phil P.

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